Week 1 in review

Mark week one of my efforts as a failure.

I did almost no writing of any kind this past week. I could blame it on any number of things but since I found time to play a game of Warhammer 40k and to paint some miniatures for said game, I think I'll blame laziness and procrastination.

On a positive note, I started running again. We'll see how long that lasts.

That is all.

Objectives

I haz a plan.

Part of that plan is not to post as much as I have been this week. I will be posting at least once per week, typically Wodin's Day. There may be more.
The Wednesday post is to track story progress. Every thing else I post is up for grabs.

The idea for my current project has been knocking around my skull for almost two years. I've been taking notes and writing down snippets. I've started to focus exclusively on it the past two weeks. I plan to have my outlining and character sketches done by mid November. After that I need to set a reasonable goal for words per week.

I'm doing this to have an outside commitment. I'm hoping at least one person will read this and yell at me for not keeping to the schedule. I am, as I said, a master procrastinator. I occasionally need someone to kick my ass into gear. Those occasions are days that end in Y.

I've found that reading the blogs I do keeps me focused. Writing this blog should also aid in keeping me on track.

That is all.

An initial flurry

This blog is an attempt to force some structure and guidance into my life.
I am inherently lazy and a past master at procrastination. I have three projects that I want to complete and this blog is one way of keeping myself on track.

I am voracious reader. I love reading everything. An outgrowth of that is I also love to write. I have started many writing projects. I have abandoned many writing projects. I have two manuscripts that are 75% finished and stalled because I have written myself into a corner and they need a major overhaul. The primary reason for this blog is to track my progress on my newest attempt at fiction. I'm doing this to have a schedule and some outside accountability.

My newest project will be an urban fantasy story. It won't dark as night but it will certainly be gray. That's about as far as I will go with detail right now.

The second project, which can't proceed until early 2011, is to build a render farm. The reason it can't proceed until 2011 is hardware availability. I am structuring how I want it to work and studying the feasibility of what I want to accomplish.

The third project is mostly pipedream at this point. It is certainly well below the previous two as far as priorities are concerned. I have a few ideas for videogames that I would like to make and I am trying to decide which one to try.

Obligatory Narcissism

Have some information.

I am a white male, not quite thirty. I am average height. I have blue eyes and graying hair. I am overweight but do not look as heavy as the scale says I am.

I am married. Our daughter is a year old. Our two dogs are four years old.

My wife is energetic, outgoing, and cheerful. I am not.

My daughter is energetic, cheerful and curious. She seems to fit the description of a one year old child perfectly.

One of the dogs is energetic and outgoing. The other is not.

There will be pictures of my wife, daughter and dogs, but not me. They are attractive, cute, and cute in that order. I am not. I am hideously, grotesquely, horrifyingly ugly.

I am told I have a very dry sense of humor.